SEG3101 - Final Exam - Study Guide

The final exam consists of several questions with sub-questions on various aspects of the course. Most questions relate to chapters 3 through 6, and sometimes related to the course project.

Note: In general, the Supplementary Material indicated in the course notes are not included in the exam.

Module 1 - Basics of requirements engineering

• Included: All (except what is excluded)
• Excluded: definitions of RE, importance of RE

Module 2 - Requirements inception and elicitation

• Included: All (except what is excluded)
• Excluded: project viability, filtering techniques for brainstorming, JAD, ethnographical analysis, use cases and mis-use cases,

Module 3 - Requirements analysis and specification - modeling techniques

• Included:
  • Requirements documentation standards - IEEE 830 (the course note slides, not the content of the IEEE standard)
  • Writing Better Requirements
  • Introduction to analysis and requirements specification
  • Non-functional requirements
  • Functional modeling :
    • use of models
    • Problem Frames (their utility, not their detailed notation)
    • UML (class, activity, sequence, state diagrams)
    • UCM (except: performance analysis, test generation, retro-engineering and business process modeling)
• Excluded:
  • Goal modeling, GRL
  • Classical analysis and modeling approaches, such as Structured Analysis
  • Object-oriented modeling
• Note: the UCM syntax will be provided at the exam (if required), but not the syntax of UML

Module 4 - Requirements verification, and validation

• Included:
  • Requirement Triage and Negotiation
  • Verification and Validation (except: Performance modeling and evalutation, Test case derivation, and Deriving distributed system designs)
• Excluded:
  • Examples of requirements review check list

Module 5 - Requirements management

• Included: All (except what is excluded)
• Excluded: Integration of DOORS-UCM, DOORS Change Proposal System, integration with Synergy, TWiki, Requisite Pro, Genspec

Module 6 - Examples of requirements approaches in typical development processes

• Included: All (except what is excluded)
• Excluded:
  • The details about RUP artefacts, roles, activities
  • other agile methods besides XP

Labs/Tutorials

• The last labs, including November 4

Assignments

• Mainly Assignment 2

Gregor v Bochmann, December 4, 2010